2019 Stormers season, Player statistics
(c) denotes the team captain. For each match, the player's squad number is shown. Starting players are numbered 1 to 15, while the replacements are numbered 16 to 23. If a replacement made an appearance in the match, it is indicated by . "App" refers to the number of appearances made by the player, "Try" to the number of tries scored by the player, "Con" to the number of conversions kicked, "Pen" to the number of penalties kicked, "DG" to the number of drop goals kicked and "Pts" refer to the total number of points scored by the player.


2019 Strade Bianche
The 13th edition of the Strade Bianche was held on 9 March 2019. Starting and finishing in Siena, Italy, it was the fifth event of the 2019 UCI World Tour. It was won by Julian Alaphilippe, followed by Jakob Fuglsang. Wout van Aert was third.


2019 Strade Bianche, Route
The route is identical to that of the 2018 event, containing 63 km of gravel roads spread across 11 sectors, for a total distance of 184 km.


2019 Strade Bianche Women
The fifth edition of the Strade Bianche Donne was held on 9 March 2019. Dutch rider Annemiek van Vleuten won the race after breaking clear on the final gravel sector. Denmark's Annika Langvad finished second, Poland's Kasia Niewiadoma third. Starting and finishing in Siena, Italy, it was the opening event of the 2019 UCI Women's World Tour.


2019 Strade Bianche Women
The route was identical to that of the previous year, containing 30 km of gravel roads spread over eight sectors, for a total distance of 136 km. The race was run in sunny weather and mild temperatures. Annemiek van Vleuten broke clear from the lead group on the final gravel sector of Le Tolfe, at 12 km from the finish, and held her lead on the steep final climb of Via Santa Caterina to finish solo on the Piazza del Campo in Siena.


2019 Strade Bianche Women, Teams
123 participants from 21 teams entered the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:


2019 Strat 200
The 2019 Strat 200 was a NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race held on March 1, 2019, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas. Contested over 134 laps on the 1.5 mi (2.4 km) asphalt intermediate speedway, it was the third race of the 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series season.


2019 Strat 200, Practice, First practice
Johnny Sauter was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 30.219 seconds and a speed of 178.696 mph (287.583 km/h).


2019 Strat 200, Practice, Final practice
Matt Crafton was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 30.013 seconds and a speed of 179.922 mph (289.556 km/h).


2019 Strat 200, Qualifying
Kyle Busch scored the pole for the race with a time of 30.184 seconds and a speed of 178.903 mph (287.916 km/h).


2019 Stratford-on-Avon District Council election
The 2019 Stratford-on-Avon District Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of the Stratford-on-Avon District Council in England. It was held on the same day as other local elections.


2019 Styrian state election
The 2019 Styrian state election was held on 24 November 2019 to elect the members of the Landtag of Styria.


2019 Styrian state election
The conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) was the clear winner of the election, winning 36.0% on a swing of 7.6 percentage points. This came to the detriment of the former largest party, the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), which lost six points and fell to second place. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) fell by nine points. The Greens made a strong showing, winning 12% and doubling their representation to six seats. The Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) achieved their best result since re-entering the Landtag in 2005 with 6.0%. NEOS – The New Austria (NEOS) doubled its voteshare from the 2015 election, winning 5.4%, and entered the Landtag with two seats.


2019 Styrian state election
The outgoing government, a coalition of the SPÖ and ÖVP, was unusual in that it was headed by a member of the smaller party – Hermann Schützenhöfer of the ÖVP. With his party's success in the election, he was re-elected Governor by the Landtag at the head of a renewed ÖVP–SPÖ coalition.


2019 Styrian state election, Background
In the 2015 election, the SPÖ–ÖVP government suffered major losses (–9.0 and –8.7 points respectively) to the FPÖ (+16.1 points), with all three parties finishing within a 2.5 percentage point margin of one another. Afterwards, in line with a promise to step down if the SPÖ fell below 30% of votes, Governor Franz Voves announced his resignation. With the SPÖ and ÖVP planning to continue their coalition, the larger SPÖ was expected to retain the governorship. However, after several days of negotiations, the government announced that Voves would be succeeded by ÖVP leader Hermann Schützenhöfer. This was received poorly by opposition parties and the federal SPÖ alike, who criticised it as a breach of political convention. The Styrian SPÖ claimed it had been done to prevent the ÖVP from defecting and forming a coalition with the FPÖ.


2019 Styrian state election, Background
In May 2019, the Ibiza affair led to the collapse of the federal government between the ÖVP and FPÖ. The September 2019 federal election took place two months ahead of the Styrian election and saw substantial losses for the FPÖ and SPÖ, and gains for the ÖVP and Greens.


2019 Styrian state election, Electoral system
The 48 seats of the Landtag of Styria are elected via open list proportional representation in a two-step process. 40 of the seats are distributed between four multi-member constituencies. For parties to receive any representation in the Landtag, they must win at least one seat in a constituency directly. Seats are distributed in constituencies according to the Hare quota, with eight leveling seats allocated using the D'Hondt method at the state level, to ensure overall proportionality between a party's vote share and its share of seats.


2019 Subang Football League
The 2019 Subang League was the second season of the Subang Football League, the fourth-tier football league in Malaysia competition featuring semi-professional and amateur clubs. It is a part of Malaysia M4 League. The season started on 6 July 2019.


2019 Subang Football League, Teams
A total of 10 teams competed in the league. The Subang Football League was played from July to September, in single round-robin format.


2019 Sud Ladies Cup
The 2019 Sud Ladies Cup (officially French: 2ème Sud Ladies Cup – Tournoi Maurice Revello) was the second edition of the Sud Ladies Cup women's football tournament.


2019 Sud Ladies Cup
It was held in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur from 8 to 18 May 2019. In this season, the tournament was contested by under-19 national teams.


2019 Sud Ladies Cup
North Korea won their first title without conceding a goal.


2019 Sud Ladies Cup, Format
The six invited teams played a round-robin tournament. The teams were ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss). If at the end of a match it ended in a draw, an additional point would be given to the winner of a penalty shoot-out. If tied on points, head-to-head match would be used to determine the ranking.


2019 Sud Ladies Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 65 goals scored in 15 matches, for an average of 4.33 goals per match.


2019 Sud Ladies Cup, Statistics, Awards
After the final, the following players were rewarded for their performances during the competition.


2019 Sud Ladies Cup, Statistics, Sud Ladies Cup 2019 best XI
The best XI team was a squad consisting of the eleven most impressive players at the tournament.


2019 Sud Ladies Cup squads
The 2019 Sud Ladies Cup was an international association football tournament held in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. The six national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 22 players; only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.


2019 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens
The 2019 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens was the thirteenth edition of the Sudamérica Rugby Sevens, the continental championship for rugby sevens in South America. The competition took place as a series over two legs, the first tournament at Punta del Este in Uruguay, and the second at Viña del Mar in Chile.


2019 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens
Chile won both tournaments to take out the series title and gain entry to the USA Sevens and Canada Sevens in 2019, as well as a berth at the inaugural Challenger Series for a chance to qualify to the World Sevens Series in 2020–21.


2019 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens
Uruguay finished fourth in the series and also gained a berth at the Challenger Series as the next highest-placed team from Sudamérica not already in the World Series.


2019 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens, Teams
Twelve teams competed in the series, six teams from the Sudamérica Rugby region together with six invited international teams.


2019 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens, Punta del Este Sevens
The first leg of the series was held on 5–6 January 2019.


2019 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens, Viña del Mar Sevens
The second leg of the series was held on 12–13 January 2019.


2019 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The 2019 Sudamérica Rugby Sevens Olympic Qualifying Tournament for the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 29–30 June 2019. The winner of the tournament represents Sudamérica Rugby, with the runner-up and third place participant qualified for a 2020 repechage tournament. The highest ranking team not already qualified for the 2019 Pan American Games will also be eligible for that tournament.


2019 Sudamérica Rugby Women's Sevens Olympic Qualifying Tournament
The 2019 Sudamérica Rugby Women's Sevens Olympic Qualifying Tournament for the 2020 Summer Olympics held on 1–2 June 2019. The winner of the tournament represents Sudamérica Rugby, with the runner-up and third place participant qualified for a 2020 repechage tournament.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état
The 2019 Sudanese coup d'état took place on the late afternoon of 11 April 2019, when Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown by the Sudanese army after popular protests demanded his departure. At that time the army, led by Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf, toppled the government and National Legislature and declared a state of emergency in the country for a period of 3 months, followed by a transitional period of two years before an agreement was reached later.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Background
Protests have been ongoing in Sudan since 19 December 2018 when a series of demonstrations broke out in several cities due to dramatically rising costs of living and the deterioration of the country's economy. In January 2019, the protests shifted attention from economic matters to calls of resignation for the long time President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Background
By February 2019, Bashir had declared the first state of national emergency in twenty years amidst increasing unrest.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
On 11 April, the Sudanese military removed Omar al-Bashir from his position as President of Sudan, dissolved the cabinet and the National Legislature, and announced a three-month state of emergency, to be followed by a two-year transition period. Lt . Gen. Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf, who was both the defense minister of Sudan and the Vice President of Sudan, declared himself the de facto Head of State, announced the suspension of the country's constitution, and imposed a curfew from 10 pm to 4 am, effectively ordering the dissolution of the ongoing protests. Along with the National Legislature and national government, state governments and legislative councils in Sudan were dissolved as well.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
State media reported that all political prisoners, including anti-Bashir protest leaders, were being released from jail. Al-Bashir's National Congress Party responded by announcing that they would hold a rally supporting the ousted president. Soldiers also raided the offices of the Islamic Movement, the main ideological wing of the National Congress, in Khartoum.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
On 12 April, the ruling military government agreed to shorten the length of its rule to "as early as a month" and transfer control to a civilian government if negotiations could result in a new government being formed. That evening, Auf stepped down as head of the military council and made Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan, who serves as general inspector of the armed forces, his successor. This came following protests over his decision not to extradite Bashir to the International Criminal Court. The resignation was regarded as a "triumph" by the protestors, who were overjoyed.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
Burhan is considered to have a cleaner record than the rest of al-Bashir's generals and is not wanted or implicated for war crimes by any international court. He was one of the generals who had reached out to protesters during their week-long encampment near the military headquarters, meeting with them face to face and listening to their views.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
Despite the imposed curfew, protesters remained on the streets. On 13 April, Burhan announced in his first televised address that the curfew which had been imposed by Auf was now lifted and that an order was issued to complete the release of all prisoners jailed under emergency laws ordered by Bashir. Hours beforehand, members of the ruling military council released a statement to Sudanese television which stated that Burhan had accepted the resignation of intelligence and security chief Salah Gosh. Gosh had overseen the crackdown of protestors who opposed al-Bashir. Following these announcements, talks between the protestors and the military to transition to a civilian government officially started.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
In a statement, several Sudanese activists, including those of the Sudanese Professionals Association and the Sudanese Communist Party, denounced the Transitional Military Council as a government of "the same faces and entities that our great people have revolted against". The activists demanded that power be handed over to a civilian government.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
On 12 April, Col. General Omar Zein al-Abideen, a member of the Transitional Military Council, announced that the transfer of Sudanese government to civilian rule would take place in "as early as a month if a government is formed" and offered to start talks with protestors to start this transition. On 14 April 2019, it was announced that council had agreed to have the protestors nominate a civilian Prime Minister and have civilians run every Government ministry outside the Defense and Interior Ministries. The same day, military council spokesman Shams El Din Kabbashi Shinto announced that Auf had been removed as Defense Minister and Lt. General Abu Bakr Mustafa was named to succeed Gosh as chief of Sudan's National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS).


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
On 15 April 2019, Shams al-Din Kabbashi announced that "The former ruling National Congress Party (NCP) will not participate in any transitional government". Despite being barred from the transitional government, the NCP has not been barred from taking part in future elections. Prominent activist Mohammed Naji al-Asam announced that trust was also growing between the military and the protestors following more talks and the release of more political prisoners, despite a poorly organized attempt by the army to disperse the sit-in. It was also announced that the military council was restructuring, which began with the appointments of Colonel General Hashem Abdel Muttalib Ahmed Babakr as army chief of staff and Colonel General Mohamed Othman al-Hussein as deputy chief of staff.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
On 15 April, the African Union gave Sudan 15 days to install a civilian government. If the ruling military council does not comply, Sudan will be suspended as a member of the AU. On 16 April, the military council announced that Burhan had again cooperated with the demands of the protestors and sacked the nation's three top prosecutors, including chief prosecutor Omar Ahmed Mohamed Abdelsalam, public prosecutor Amer Ibrahim Majid, and deputy public prosecutor Hesham Othman Ibrahim Saleh.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
The same day, two sources with direct knowledge told CNN that Bashir, his former interior minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, and Ahmed Haroun, the former head of the ruling party, will be charged with corruption and the death of protesters. On 23 April, the AU agreed to extend the transition deadline from 15 days to three months.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
On 24 April, three members of the Transitional Military Council submitted their resignations. Those who resigned included political committee chair Lieutenant-General Omar Zain al-Abideen, Lieutenant-General Jalal al-Deen al-Sheikh and Lieutenant-General Al-Tayeb Babakr Ali Fadeel. On 27 April, an agreement was reached to form a transitional council made up jointly of civilians and military, though the exact details of the power-sharing arrangement were not yet agreed upon, as both sides wanted to have a majority. The military also announced the resignation of the three military council generals.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Coup d'état and aftermath
Dozens of women were raped on 3 June 2019 by Sudanese security forces and at least 87 people were killed by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and other troops tore apart a sit-in camp Khartoum.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Fate of al-Bashir and his allies
After being detained, al-Bashir was initially placed under house arrest under heavy guard; his personal bodyguard was dismissed. Lt . General Omar Zain al-Abideen, who at the time also served as head of the Transitional Military Council's political committee, said that the military government would not extradite al-Bashir to The Hague to face charges in the International Criminal Court (ICC), where al-Bashir is the subject of an arrest warrant on counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes in connection with the Darfur genocide between 2003 and 2008. Al-Abideen said, however, that the military government would seek to prosecute al-Bashir in Sudan.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Fate of al-Bashir and his allies
More than 100 of al-Bashir's allies, including Prime Minister Mohamed Taher Ayala, National Congress Party leader and ICC fugitive for war crimes and crimes against humanity Ahmed Haroun, member of the National Congress Awad Al-Jaz, and former vice presidents Bakri Hassan Saleh and Ali Othman Taha were also arrested. Former defense minister and Khartoum state Governor Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein, also subject to an ICC arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity, was also arrested. More people who had served in al-Bashir's government were reported to have been arrested on 14 April 2019, as well. Among the people arrested on 14 April included the head of the party's political sector Abdel Rahman al-Khidir, former Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud, former Presidential Affairs Minister Fadl Abdallah, and head of the party's youth sector Mohamed al-Amin.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Fate of al-Bashir and his allies
On 17 April 2019, two prison officials, as well as members of al-Bashir's family, confirmed that al-Bashir was transferred from the presidential palace, where he had been under house arrest, to Khartoum's Kobar Maximum Security Prison. Al-Bashir was reported to be surrounded by tight security and held in solitary confinement, in the same prison where he had held political prisoners during his time in power. This came a day after Uganda's Minister for Foreign Affairs Henry Oryem Okello considered offering the former Sudan President asylum in Uganda. Several other allies of al-Bashir are being held at the prison as well. The reports of al-Bashir's transfer were later confirmed to Al Jazeera by a prison guard. Military council spokesman Shams Eldin Kabashi added that two of al-Bashir's brothers, Abdullah al-Bashir and Alabas al-Bashir, were arrested as well.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Fate of al-Bashir and his allies
On 20 April, officials located suitcases "loaded with cash" in al-Bashir's home and added that the secretary general of the Islamic movement Al-Zubair Ahmed Hassan and former parliament speaker Ahmed Ibrahim al-Taher were among those arrested as well. It was later revealed that the suitcases contained a total of around $6.7 million. Parliament speaker Ibrahim Ahmed Omar and presidential aide Nafie Ali Nafie were also placed under house arrest.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Fate of al-Bashir and his allies
On 7 May 2019, 21 former officials who served in al-Bashir's National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in South Darfur were arrested after attempting to flee the country. On 8 May, it was revealed that some of the South Darfur officials who arrested were women. On 20 May 2019, suspects who confessed to killing five pro-democracy protestors were arrested.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Agreement reached on transition government and Constitution
A deal was agreed verbally between the TMC and the civilian protesters represented by the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) on 5 July and a written form of the agreement was signed by the TMC and FFC on 17 July 2019. The TMC and FFC announced that they would share power to run Sudan via executive and legislative institutions and a judicial investigation of post-coup events, including the Khartoum massacre, until elections occur in mid-2022.


2019 Sudanese coup d'état, Agreement reached on transition government and Constitution
On 17 July 2019, The deal plans for leadership of the sovereign council to be transferred from a military leader to a civilian leader 21 months after the transitional period begins, for a total of 39 months, leading to elections in 2022. On 3 August 2019, terms concerning a transitional government and new Constitution were finalized. On 4 August 2019, Opposition leader Ahmed Rabie and Gen Mohamed Hamdan Daglo signed the Constitutional Declaration, which also ensured that six civilians and five military officials will lead the Sudanese government during the three-year transition period.


2019 Sudirman Cup
The 2019 Sudirman Cup (officially known as the  2019 Total BWF Sudirman Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 16th edition of the Sudirman Cup, the biennial international badminton championship contested by the mixed national teams of the member associations of Badminton World Federation (BWF), since its inception in 1989. The tournament was played in Nanning, China, between 19 and 26 May 2019. Korea is the defending champion.


2019 Sudirman Cup
China defeated Japan 3–0 in the final to win the tournament.


2019 Sudirman Cup, Host city selection
Nanning was the only bidder for this event. The bid was approved by Badminton World Federation on 18 March 2017 during a meeting in Kuala Lumpur. The city itself won the internal bidding phase by the Chinese Badminton Association, being the preferred city over Nanjing (later chosen to host 2018 BWF World Championships), Qingdao, and Wuhan.


2019 Sudirman Cup, Seedings
The seedings for 32 teams competing in the tournament were announced on 12 March 2019. It was based on aggregated points from the best players in the world ranking as of 5 March 2019. The tournament was divided into four groups, with twelve teams in the elite group competing for the title. Eight teams were seeded into second and third groups and four remaining teams were seeded into fourth group.


2019 Sudirman Cup, Seedings
On the day of the draw, it was announced that the original list of 32 teams was pared down to 31, with Kenya withdrawing from the tournament. The 31 participating teams were divided into four groups, with Group 1 consisting of the 12 teams that will compete for the title. Group 2 and Group 3 (eight teams each) along with Group 4 (three teams) will fight for overall placings. The draw was held on 19 March 2019.


2019 Sudirman Cup, Tiebreakers
The rankings of teams in each group were determined as follows (regulations Chapter 5 Section 5.1. Article 16.3):


2019 Sudirman Cup, Tiebreakers
Teams that won 3 match first win the tie: 1 points for the winner, 0 points for the loser.


2019 Sudirman Cup, Knockout stage, Final bracket
The draw for the quarterfinals was held after the completion of the final matches in the group stage on 22 May 2019.


2019 Sudirman Cup group stage
The group stage of the 2019 Sudirman Cup was the first stage of the competition. It was held at Guangxi Sports Center in Nanning, China, from 19 to 22 May. For Group 1, the top two teams from each group (8 in total) advanced to the final knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination tournament. Teams from group 2 and 3 (16 in total) play round robin in respective subgroup and advanced to classification round to determine the overall placings, meanwhile teams from group 4 play in a single round robin format for final placings.


2019 Sudirman Cup group stage, Seeding
The seeding for 32 teams competing in the tournament were announced on 12 March 2019. It was based on aggregated points from the best players in the world ranking as of 5 March 2019. The tournament was divided into four groups, with twelve teams in the elite group competing for the title. Eight teams were seeded into second and third groups and four remaining teams were seeded into fourth group.


2019 Sudirman Cup group stage, Seeding
On the day of the draw, it was announced that the original list of 32 teams was pared down to 31, with Kenya withdrawing from the tournament. The 31 participating teams were divided into four groups, with Group 1 consisting of the 12 teams that will compete for the title. Group 2 and Group 3 (eight teams each) along with Group 4 (three teams) will fight for overall placings. The draw was held on 19 March 2019.


2019 Sudirman Cup knockout stage
The knockout stage of the 2019 Sudirman Cup was the final stage of the competition, following the group stage. It began on 23 May with the quarter-finals and ended on 26 May with the final match of the tournament, held at Guangxi Sports Center in Nanning, China. For Group 1, the top two teams from each group (8 in total) advanced to the final knockout stage to compete in a single-elimination tournament. Teams from group 2 and 3 (16 in total) play round robin in respective subgroup and advanced to classification round to determine the overall placings, meanwhile teams from group 4 play in a single round robin format for final placings.


2019 Sudirman Cup knockout stage, Bracket, Group 1
The draw for the quarterfinals was held after the completion of the final matches in the group stage on 22 May 2019.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads
This article lists the confirmed squad lists for badminton's 2019 Sudirman Cup. The rankings below are based on 5 March 2019 as per stated in prospectus.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1A, Japan
17 players are scheduled to represent Japan in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1A, Thailand
16 players are scheduled to represent Thailand in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1A, Russia
10 players are scheduled to represent Russia in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1B, Indonesia
20 players are scheduled to represent Indonesia in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1B, Denmark
13 players are scheduled to represent Denmark in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1B, England
8 players are scheduled to represent England in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1C, Chinese Taipei
18 players are scheduled to represent Chinese Taipei in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1C, South Korea
14 players are scheduled to represent South Korea in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1C, Hong Kong
16 players are scheduled to represent Hong Kong in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1D, China
20 players are scheduled to represent China in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1D, India
13 players are scheduled to represent India in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 1D, Malaysia
20 players are scheduled to represent Malaysia in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 2A, Netherlands
8 players are scheduled to represent Netherlands in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 2A, France
10 players are scheduled to represent France in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 2A, United States
10 players are scheduled to represent United States in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 2A, Vietnam
10 players are scheduled to represent Vietnam in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 2B, Germany
12 players are scheduled to represent Germany in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 2B, Canada
11 players are scheduled to represent Canada in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 2B, Singapore
11 players are scheduled to represent Singapore in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 2B, Israel
9 players are scheduled to represent Israel in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 3A, Ireland
5 players are scheduled to represent Ireland in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 3A, Australia
9 players are scheduled to represent Australia in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 3A, New Zealand
8 players are scheduled to represent New Zealand in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 3A, Nepal
4 players are scheduled to represent Nepal in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 3B, Switzerland
7 players are scheduled to represent Switzerland in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 3B, Sri Lanka
6 players are scheduled to represent Sri Lanka in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 3B, Slovakia
6 players are scheduled to represent Slovakia in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 3B, Lithuania
4 players are scheduled to represent Lithuania in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 4, Macau
9 players are scheduled to represent Macau in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 4, Kazakhstan
11 players are scheduled to represent Kazakhstan in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sudirman Cup squads, Group 4, Greenland
6 players are scheduled to represent Greenland in the 2019 Sudirman Cup.


2019 Sugar Bowl
The 2019 Sugar Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 2019. It was the 85th edition of the Sugar Bowl, and one of the 2018–19 bowl games concluding the 2018 FBS football season. Sponsored by the Allstate insurance company, the game was officially known as the Allstate Sugar Bowl.


2019 Sugar Bowl, Teams
The Sugar Bowl matches the champions of the Big 12 Conference and Southeastern Conference (SEC), unless a champion team is selected for the College Football Playoff, in which case another team from the same conference is invited. Per that criterion, a matchup of Texas and Georgia was announced on December 2. The two programs had previously met four times, with Texas having won three times (including the 1949 Orange Bowl) and Georgia winning once (the 1984 Cotton Bowl Classic).


2019 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Texas Longhorns
Texas lost the 2018 Big 12 Championship Game to Oklahoma, then became the Big 12 representative in the Sugar Bowl when Oklahoma was selected for the College Football Playoff. Texas entered the bowl with a 9–4 record (7–2 in conference).


2019 Sugar Bowl, Teams, Georgia Bulldogs
Georgia lost the 2018 SEC Championship Game to Alabama, then became the SEC representative in the Sugar Bowl when Alabama was selected for the College Football Playoff. Georgia entered the bowl with an 11–2 record (7–1 in conference).


2019 Sugar Bowl, Game summary
Texas defeated a heavily favored Georgia team, 28–21. Quarterback Sam Ehlinger was named the game MVP.


2019 Sugarlands Shine 250
The 2019 Sugarlands Shine 250 is a NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series race held on October 12, 2019, at Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama. Contested over 94 laps on the 2.66 mile (4.28 km) superspeedway, it was the 20th race of the 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series season, fourth race of the Playoffs, and first race of the Round of 6.


2019 Sugarlands Shine 250, Background, Track
Talladega Superspeedway, formerly known as Alabama International Motor Speedway, is a motorsports complex located north of Talladega, Alabama. It is located on the former Anniston Air Force Base in the small city of Lincoln. A tri-oval, the track was constructed in 1969 by the International Speedway Corporation, a business controlled by the France family. Talladega is most known for its steep banking. The track currently hosts NASCAR's Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Gander Outdoors Truck Series. Talladega is the longest NASCAR oval with a length of 2.66-mile-long (4.28 km) tri-oval like the Daytona International Speedway, which is a 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km).


2019 Sugarlands Shine 250, Practice, First practice
Austin Hill was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 49.857 seconds and a speed of 193.115 mph (310.788 km/h).


2019 Sugarlands Shine 250, Practice, Final practice
Harrison Burton was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 50.646 seconds and a speed of 189.077 mph (304.290 km/h).


2019 Sugarlands Shine 250, Qualifying
Matt Crafton scored the pole for the race with a time of 52.928 seconds and a speed of 180.925 mph (291.171 km/h).


2019 Sugarlands Shine 250, Race, Summary
Matt Crafton started on pole, but was overtaken by Todd Gilliland in the second lap. Johnny Sauter took the lead afterwards, but also lost it, to Sheldon Creed. The first caution occurred when Harrison Burton spun in the tri-oval. Creed maintained the lead and won Stage 1.


2019 Sugarlands Shine 250, Race, Summary
Ross Chastain took the lead, but Tyler Dippel wrecked and brought out a caution. During stage 2, Moffitt and Friesen were found to be locking bumpers, causing NASCAR officials to force them to take a pass-through penalty. Both teams and some of the broadcasters disagreed with NASCAR’s assessment. Stewart Friesen won Stage 2 after passing Brett Moffitt and Austin Hill.


2019 Sugarlands Shine 250, Race, Summary
On lap 87, a large wreck occurred that took out Chastain after he turned across Creed's nose while trying to maintain his lead. In the final lap, Johnny Sauter held the lead until the tri-oval, where a block on Riley Herbst forced Herbst below the double yellow line. After NASCAR reviewed the footage, they deemed that Sauter's block caused Herbst to go below the yellow line. The race win was ultimately given to Boyd, while Sauter was demoted to 14th place.


2019 Sugarlands Shine 250, Race, Summary
Chastain and Tyler Ankrum left the race below the cutoff point for the playoffs. Due to Boyd's win, none of the other playoffs drivers were locked into the final round.


2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
The 2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup was the 28th edition of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup. It was held in Ipoh, Malaysia from 23 until 30 March.


2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
The number of teams for this year's cup is the same as last year's tournament where six teams competed. India, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, and South Korea participated in this edition of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.


2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup
South Korea won the tournament for the third time after defeating India 4–2 on penalties, after the match ended in a draw at 1–1, in the final.


2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Teams
Argentina, Australia, and England who competed in the past tournament did not participate this year due to the 2019 Men's FIH Pro League. Canada, Japan, and South Korea are the teams replacing them.


2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Teams
Ireland withdrew from the tournament a month before it began. Poland was invited to replace South Africa (the team planned to replace Ireland), who were not able to finance flight tickets.


2019 Sultan Azlan Shah Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers
There have been 96 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 5.33 goals per match.


2019 Sultan of Johor Cup
The 2019 Sultan of Johor Cup was the ninth edition of the Sultan of Johor Cup, an international men's under–21 field hockey tournament in Malaysia. It was held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia from 12 to 19 October 2019.


2019 Sultan of Johor Cup
As in previous editions, a total of six teams competed for the title. All the teams that appeared in the 2018 edition returned for the 2019 tournament.


2019 Sultan of Johor Cup
The defending champions Great Britain won the tournament for the third time by defeating India 2–1 in the final. The hosts Malaysia won the bronze medal by defeating Japan 2–1.


2019 Sultan of Johor Cup, Participating nations
Including the host nation, 6 teams competed in the tournament.


2019 Sultan of Johor Cup, Statistics, Awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2019 Sultan of Johor Cup, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 82 goals scored in 18 matches, for an average of 4.56 goals per match.


2019 Summer Transplant Games
The 2019 Transplant Games were a multi-sport event held from 17 to 23 August 2019, in Newcastle-Gateshead, United Kingdom. They were the 22nd edition of the World Transplant Games.


2019 Summer Transplant Games
The games were organised by the World Transplant Games Federation (WTGF) and NewcastleGateshead Initiative.


2019 Summer Universiade
The 2019 Summer Universiade, the XXX Summer Universiade (Italian: Universiadi estive 2019) was held in Naples, Italy, between 3 and 14 July 2019.


2019 Summer Universiade
It was initially scheduled for Brasília, Brazil in July 2019. However, on 23 December 2014, it was confirmed that Brasília had withdrawn from hosting the event, citing financial problems. International University Sports Federation decided to reopen the bidding process after the withdrawal.


2019 Summer Universiade, Host selection
On 14 June 2012, the then-Brazilian Minister of Sports, Aldo Rebelo, and the president of CBDU (Confederação Brasileira do Desporto Universitário), Luciano Cabral, announced that after the failed bid by Brazil for the 2017 Summer Universiade, they would bid again for the 2019 Summer Universiade. Brazil's capital Brasília was appointed as the bid city again after it lost in 2017 to Taipei. Brazil previously hosted the Summer Universiade once in 1963 in Porto Alegre.


2019 Summer Universiade, Host selection
On 11 December 2012, Azad Rahimov, the Youth and Sports Minister of Azerbaijan, announced that after the country won the rights to host the first European Games in 2015, they would bid to host the 2019 Summer Universiade. The attempt was the first time that Azerbaijan placed a bid for the Universiade. Baku would represent the country as the bid city.


2019 Summer Universiade, Host selection
On 31 January 2013, Miklós Tóth, the vice-chairman of the Hungarian Olympic Committee, announced that Hungary would make a bid for the 2019 or 2021 Summer Universiade with the aid of Alfréd Hajós' Plan (Hajós Alfréd Terv). Budapest previously hosted the 1965 Summer Universiade and was confirmed as the bid city on 19 February 2013.


2019 Summer Universiade, Host selection
On 3 April 2013, FISU officially confirmed three candidate cities:


2019 Summer Universiade, Host selection
On 31 October 2013, Baku officially withdrew from the bidding process for the 2019 Summer Universiade, citing that the city will be busy with other sporting events in the period of 2015–2017 with the 2015 European Games and the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games. On 8 November 2013, Budapest withdrew because the city could not afford the costs of the event, leaving Brasilia as the only bidding city. On 9 November 2013, FISU nominated Brasilia as host city of the 2019 Summer Universiade. On 5 March 2016, FISU reattributed the 2019 Universiade to Naples, Italy.


2019 Summer Universiade, Venues
The Organising committee plans to involve already existed sports facilities after their renovation.


2019 Summer Universiade, Opening ceremony
The opening ceremony was held at Stadio San Paolo and ran from 21:00 to 00:20 Central European Summer Time including a special performance by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli.


2019 Summer Universiade, Marketing, Logo
The logo of the games was an image of Mount Vesuvius, a somma-stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples which was remodeled into five chromatic trails of both the Olympics and Universiade that resembles a race track. The lines meeting at the top and ending with a puff of multicoloured smoke symbolise different people’s involvement with a unique objective of sharing and contributing to development, progress, solidarity, and coexistence.


2019 Summer Universiade, Marketing, Mascot
The mascot of the games was a Siren named "Partenope", which was designed by Melania Acanfora, young Neapolitan student of the “Accademia delle Belle Arti” (Academy of Fine Arts). The Mascot is described as a gymnast with her fish tail that could be transformed into scaly legs which allow her to run, jump, dance, just as a real athlete. In the opening ceremony, Mariafelicia Carraturo interpreted the mascot.


2019 Summer Universiade, Closing ceremony
The closing ceremony was held on 14 July 2019 at the Stadio San Paolo and ran from 21:00 to 23:20 Central European Summer Time. The closing ceremony featuring the handover of the FISU flag to the Chinese city of Chengdu as the host city of the 2021 Summer Universiade. Along with the FISU, protocol the ceremony had the performances by rapper Clementino, singer and Eurovision Song Contest 2019 runner-up Mahmood and Austrian DJ Sonic Snares.


2019 Summit League Baseball Tournament
The 2019 Summit League Baseball Tournament took place from May 22–25. The top four regular season finishers of the league's six teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at J. L. Johnson Stadium on the campus of Oral Roberts in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The winner of the tournament, Omaha, earned the Summit League's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2019 Summit League Baseball Tournament, Seeding
The top four finishers from the regular season were seeded one through four based on conference winning percentage during the double round robin regular season. The teams then played a double elimination tournament.


2019 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2019 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Summit League for the 2018-19 season. All tournament games were played at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, from March 9–12, 2019. Fourth seeded North Dakota State defeated second seeded Omaha 73–63 in the championship game to win the conference tournament championship, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament.


2019 Summit League Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The top eight teams by conference record in the Summit League are eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams are seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2019 Summit League Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2019 Summit League Men's Soccer Tournament, was the 26th edition of the tournament. It determined the Summit League's automatic berth into the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament.


2019 Summit League Men's Soccer Tournament
The defending champions, Denver, won the title, beating Omaha 1-0 in the final.


2019 Summit League Men's Soccer Tournament, All Tournament Team
Marcos Bautista, OmahaTanguy Geurineau, Oral RobertsPreston Judd, DenverPep Mateu, OmahaDaisuke Otsuka, Western IllinoisWill Palmquist, DenverSeth Rinderknecht, OmahaJacob Stensson, DenverCallum Stretch, DenverTim Trilk, Western IllinoisGustavo Vargas, Oral Roberts


2019 Summit League Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2019 Summit League Women's Basketball Tournament was a post-season women's basketball tournament for The Summit League. The tournament took place March 9–12, 2019 at the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Top 8 teams in the final standings qualified for the tournament.


2019 Summit League Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The top eight teams by conference record in the Summit League are eligible to compete in the conference tournament. Teams are to be seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. South Dakota State, South Dakota, Oral Roberts, Denver, Western Illinois, North Dakota, and North Dakota State, and Purdue Fort Wayne all qualified.


2019 Summit League Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2019 Summit League Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Summit League held on November 7 and 9, 2019. The three-match tournament took place at Fishback Soccer Park in Brookings, South Dakota. The four-team single-elimination tournament consisted of two rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The Denver Pioneers were the defending champions, and were unable to defend their title losing to South Dakota State on penalties in the final. The win earned South Dakota State the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The tournament win was Denver's fifth as a member of the conference, and the first for coach Brock Thompson.


2019 Summit League men's soccer season
The 2019 Summit League men's soccer season will be the 14th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season will begin in late August 2019 and conclude in mid-November 2019.


2019 Summit League men's soccer season
Denver enter the season as the defending regular season and tournament champions.


2019 Summit League men's soccer season
This is the final season for Purdue Fort Wayne as a Summit member. The Mastodons will leave for the Horizon League on July 1, 2020. The Summit will maintain its men's soccer membership at six with the return of the Kansas City Roos (formerly known as the UMKC Kangaroos), which will rejoin at the same date after seven seasons in the Western Athletic Conference.


2019 Summit League men's soccer season, Preseason, Preseason national polls
The preseason national polls were released in July and August 2019. Denver was the only Summit League program ranked in preseason polls across all major polls.


2019 Summit League men's soccer season, Regular season, Early season tournaments
Early season tournaments will be announced in late Spring and Summer 2019.


2019 Summit League men's soccer season, 2020 MLS Draft
The 2020 MLS SuperDraft will be held in January 2020.


2019 Summit League men's soccer season, Homegrown players
The Homegrown Player Rule is a Major League Soccer program that allows MLS teams to sign local players from their own development academies directly to MLS first team rosters. Before the creation of the rule in 2008, every player entering Major League Soccer had to be assigned through one of the existing MLS player allocation processes, such as the MLS SuperDraft.


2019 Summit League men's soccer season, Homegrown players
To place a player on its homegrown player list, making him eligible to sign as a homegrown player, players must have resided in that club's home territory and participated in the club's youth development system for at least one year. Players can play college soccer and still be eligible to sign a homegrown contract.


2019 Sumner County murders
The Sumner County Slayings was a mass murder which occurred on April 27, 2019, when seven bodies were discovered at multiple locations in Sumner County, Tennessee. There was one sole survivor who was in critical condition but survived the injuries. The case was the worst mass murder in Tennessee in 20 years.


2019 Sumner County murders, Murders
On April 17 a headless body was found (who was later identified as Jim Dunn) at a burned out cabin. This was just the start to the massacre which took place 10 days later when police responded to multiple crime scenes finding four members of Cummins family slayed in their home at Charles Brown Road. They discovered another deceased victim on Luby Brown Road. Two more victims were discovered the next day and a victim who survived her wounds. One of the deceased victims was a 12-year-old girl who was partially nude but no sexual assault occurred. All the victim deaths were caused by blunt force trauma to the head.


2019 Sumner County murders, Arrest of Cummins
Cummins was going to be arrested in the upcoming days before the bodies were found due to a violation of probation of not having a mental health evaluation. A warrant was in the works. After the murders, Cummins was a suspect due to not being seen and his family's untimely deaths. Cummins was later spotted and shot after he was cornered near a creek by multiple police officers.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2019 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament will be held at Springs Brooks Stadium on the campus of the Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina from May 21st to May 26th, 2019. The tournament will again use a double-elimination format. The winner of the tournament will earn the Sun Belt Conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding
In a change from previous years, the top ten teams (based on conference results) from the conference earn invites to the tournament. The teams will be seeded based on conference winning percentage, with the bottom four seeds competing in a play-in round. The remaining eight teams will then play a two bracket, double-elimination tournament. The winner of each bracket will play a championship final.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game
The 2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game was a college football game played on Saturday, December 7, 2019, at Kidd Brewer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina, to determine the 2019 champion of the Sun Belt Conference. The game, the conference's second championship game, featured the East division champions Appalachian State and the West division champions Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Previous season
The 2018 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game featured East Division champion Appalachian State against West Division champion Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns for the first title game for the conference. The Mountaineers defeated the Ragin' Cajuns by a score of 30–19.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Teams
The 2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game was contested by the Appalachian State Mountaineers, East Division champions, and the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, West Division champions. The teams had met 7 times previously, with the Mountaineers holding a 7–0 edge in the series. The teams' most recent meeting was earlier in the 2019 season; Appalachian State won, 17–7. Louisiana had yet to win in the series, since they first met in 2014 This was the teams' second meeting in the Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, a rematch from the previous year.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Appalachian State
Appalachian State clinched its spot in the Championship Game after its November 23 win over Texas State. The Mountaineers secured hosting rights on November 29 with a 48–13 win over Troy. This is Appalachian State's second consecutive and overall appearance in the Championship Game.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Football Championship Game, Teams, Louisiana
The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns earned their spot after clinching the West Division title on November 23 with a win over Troy. This will be the Ragin' Cajuns' second consecutive and overall appearance in the Championship Game.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2019 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for Sun Belt Conference during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Tournament first-round games were played at the campus of the higher seeded team on March 12. The remainder of the tournament was held from March 14–17, 2019, in New Orleans, Louisiana, at Lakefront Arena. Georgia State defeated UT Arlington 73–64 in the championship game to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. It was the third tournament championship for Georgia State, and their second consecutive.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
Only the top 10 of the 12 conference teams were eligible for the tournament. The 3rd and 4th place teams received a double bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament, while the top 2 teams received a triple bye to the semifinals. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2019 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament was the 25th edition of the Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament decided the Sun Belt Conference champion as well as the conference's automatic berth into the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament began on November 13 and concluded on November 17, 2019.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
Appalachian State hosted the tournament, and all matches were played at ASU Soccer Stadium in Boone, North Carolina.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament
Coastal Carolina won the tournament, defeating fifth-seed and defending champions, Georgia State, 6–5, on penalty kicks after 1–1 draw. Coastal Carolina earned the conference's berth into the NCAA Tournament, where they reached the second round before losing to SMU.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Softball Tournament
The 2019 Sun Belt Conference Softball Tournament was held at the Bobcat Softball Complex on the campus of the Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, from May 8 to May 11, 2019. The tournament used a double-elimination format for the tournament as in past years. Louisiana, the winner of the tournament, earned the Sun Belt Conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Softball Tournament, Seeding
In a change from previous years, the top eight teams (based on conference results) from the conference earned invites to the tournament. The teams were seeded based on conference winning percentage, with the bottom four seeds competing in a play-in round. The remaining four teams then played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament. The winner of each bracket played each other in the championship final.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2019 Sun Belt Women's Basketball Tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament for the Sun Belt Conference that occurred from March 11 to March 16, 2019, at the Lakefront Arena in New Orleans. Little Rock won the conference tournament championship game over South Alabama, 57–56.


2019 Sun Belt Conference Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2019 Sun Belt Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Sun Belt Conference held from November 6 to November 10, 2019. The seven-match tournament took place at the Foley Sports Complex in Foley, Alabama. The eight-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Arkansas-Little Rock Trojans, however they were unable to defend their title after finishing ninth in regular season play and failing to qualify for the tournament. The South Alabama Jaguars won the title with a 5–1 win over Arkansas State in the final. This was the sixth Sun Belt women's soccer tournament title for the South Alabama women's soccer program and the second for head coach Richard Moodie.


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season
The 2019 Sun Belt Conference football season was the 18th season of college football play for the Sun Belt Conference. It was played from August 29, 2019 until January 2020. The Sun Belt Conference consists of 10 members in two divisions. It was part of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS football season.


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Previous season
In The 2018 season The Appalachian State Mountaineers finished the season with a 7–1 Conference Record and the Louisiana Rajun Cajuns finished the season with a 5–3 Conference Record met in the first ever Sun Belt Conference Championship Game held at Kidd Brewer Stadium With Appalachian State defeating the Louisiana Rajun Cajuns 30–19


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Preseason, Sun Belt Media Days
The 2019 preseason coaches football poll was released on July 19, voted from the 10 coaches of the conference. Appalachian State and Louisiana were chosen to be the finalist for their division, with the Mountaineers predicted to win the Sun Belt Championship Game.


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Schedules, Regular season
The regular season will begin on August 29, 2019, and will end on November 30, 2019.


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Sun Belt records vs Other Conferences, Sun Belt vs Power Five matchups
This is a list of games the Sun Belt has scheduled versus power conference teams (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, Pac-12, BYU/Notre Dame and SEC). All rankings are from the current AP Poll at the time of the game.


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Sun Belt records vs Other Conferences, Sun Belt vs Group of Five matchups
The following games include Sun Belt teams competing against teams from the American, C-USA, MAC or Mountain West.


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Sun Belt records vs Other Conferences, Sun Belt vs FBS independents matchups
The following games include Sun Belt teams competing against FBS Independents, which includes Army, Liberty, New Mexico State, or UMass.


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Postseason, Bowl games
Rankings are from CFP rankings. All times Mountain Time Zone. Sun Belt teams shown in bold.


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Awards and honors, Sun Belt Individual Awards
The following individuals received postseason honors as voted by the Sun Belt Conference football coaches at the end of the season


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-conference teams
All Conference Honorable Mentions: Noel Cook, Appalachian State (Sr., LB, Reidsville, N.C.)Ryan Neuzil, Appalachian State (Jr., OL, Bradenton, Fla.)Marcus Williams Jr., Appalachian State (Jr., RB, Rocky Mount, N.C.)Malik Williams, Appalachian State (Jr., WR, Chester, S.C.)Caleb Bonner, Arkansas State (Jr., LB, Reform, Ala.)Andre Harris Jr., Arkansas State (So., OL, Oklahoma City, Okla.)Marcel Murray, Arkansas State (So., RB, Hiram, Ga.)Ivory Scott, Arkansas State (Jr., OL, Kenner, La.)


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-conference teams
Shadell Bell, Coastal Carolina (RSr., TE, Decatur, Ga.)Jaivon Heiligh, Coastal Carolina (So., WR, Venice, Fla.)Ethan Howard, Coastal Carolina (RSr., OL, Brookwood, Ala.)CJ Marable, Coastal Carolina (Jr., RB, Decatur, Ga.)Shai Werts, Georgia Southern (RJr., QB, Clinton, S.C.)Wesley Kennedy III, Georgia Southern (Jr., RB, Savannah, Ga.)J.D. King, Georgia Southern (Jr., RB, Fitzgerald, Ga.)Reynard Ellis, Georgia Southern (RSo., LB, Birmingham, Ala.)Roger Carter, Georgia State (Jr., TE, Columbia, S.C.)Malik Sumter, Georgia State (RSo., C, Irmo, S.C.)Hardrick Willis, Georgia State (RSo., DE, Jonesboro, Ga.)Dontae Wilson, Georgia State (Jr., NG, Jefferson, Ga.)Jacques Boudreaux, Louisiana (Sr., LB, New Orleans, La.)


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-conference teams
Jarrod Jackson, Louisiana (RSr., WR, Reserve, La.) Chauncey Manac, Louisiana (RJr., LB, Homerville, Ga.)Nick Ralston, Louisiana (Gr., TE, Argyle, Texas)Caleb Evans, ULM (Sr., QB, Mansfield, Texas)Markis McCray, ULM (RSr., WR, Euless, Texas)Larance Shaw, ULM (Sr., DL, Fort Worth, Texas)Eastwood Thomas, ULM (RSr., OL, Jackson, Ala.)Kawaan Baker, South Alabama (Jr., WR, Atlanta, Ga.)Sean Brown, South Alabama (Sr., DL, Pleasant Grove, Ala.)Riley Cole, South Alabama (Jr., LB, Oneonta, Ala.)Jacob Shoemaker, South Alabama (Jr., OL, Gulfport, Miss.) Jarron Morris, Texas State (So., CB, Orange, Texas)Caeveon Patton, Texas State (Jr., DT, Cuero, Texas)Hutch White, Texas State (Sr., WR, Kerrville, Texas)Khambrail Winters, Texas State (Fr., CB, Houston, Texas)Dylan Bradshaw, Troy (Jr., OL, Enterprise, Ala.)Khalil McClain, Troy (Jr., WR, Fairburn, Ga.)Dell Pettus, Troy (Fr., DB, Harvest, Ala.)Austin Stidham, Troy (RSo., OL, Russellville, Ala.)


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
The 2019 College Football All-America Teams are composed of the following College Football All-American first teams chosen by the following selector organizations: Associated Press (AP), Football Writers Association of America (FWAA), American Football Coaches Association (AFCA), Walter Camp Foundation (WCFF), The Sporting News (TSN), Sports Illustrated (SI), USA Today (USAT) ESPN, CBS Sports (CBS), FOX Sports (FOX) College Football News (CFN), Bleacher Report (BR), Scout.com, Phil Steele (PS), SB Nation (SB), Athlon Sports, Pro Football Focus (PFF) and Yahoo! Sports (Yahoo! ).


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Americans
Currently, the NCAA compiles consensus all-America teams in the sports of Division I-FBS football and Division I men's basketball using a point system computed from All-America teams named by coaches associations or media sources. The system consists of three points for a first-team honor, two points for second-team honor, and one point for third-team honor. Honorable mention and fourth team or lower recognitions are not accorded any points. Football consensus teams are compiled by position and the player accumulating the most points at each position is named first team consensus all-American. Currently, the NCAA recognizes All-Americans selected by the AP, AFCA, FWAA, TSN, and the WCFF to determine Consensus and Unanimous All-Americans. Any player named to the First Team by all five of the NCAA-recognized selectors is deemed a Unanimous All-American.


2019 Sun Belt Conference football season, NFL Draft
The following list includes all Sun Belt players who were drafted in the 2020 NFL draft.


2019 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season
The 2019 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season was the 18th season of men's varsity soccer in the conference. The season began in late August 2019 and concluded in mid-November 2019.


2019 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Background
The 2018 regular season began in August 2018 and concluded in November 2018. The regular season champions, Georgia State, also won the 2018 Sun Belt Conference Men's Soccer Tournament and earned the conference's automatic berth into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. It was Georgia State's first berth into the NCAA Tournament since 2011. There, Georgia State were eliminated in the first round in a penalty shoot-out by Charlotte.


2019 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Preseason, Preseason national polls
The preseason national polls will be released in July and August 2019.


2019 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Regular season, Early season tournaments
Early season tournaments will be announced in late Spring and Summer 2019.


2019 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, 2020 MLS Draft
The 2020 MLS SuperDraft was held in January 2020. No SBC players were selected in the draft.


2019 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Homegrown players
The Homegrown Player Rule is a Major League Soccer program that allows MLS teams to sign local players from their own development academies directly to MLS first team rosters. Before the creation of the rule in 2008, every player entering Major League Soccer had to be assigned through one of the existing MLS player allocation processes, such as the MLS SuperDraft.


2019 Sun Belt Conference men's soccer season, Homegrown players
To place a player on its homegrown player list, making him eligible to sign as a homegrown player, players must have resided in that club's home territory and participated in the club's youth development system for at least one year. Players can play college soccer and still be eligible to sign a homegrown contract. No SBC players signed homegrown contract.


2019 Sun Bowl
The 2019 Sun Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 31, 2019, with kickoff at 2:00 p.m. EST (12:00 p.m. local MST) on CBS. It was the 86th edition of the Sun Bowl, and was one of the 2019–20 bowl games concluding the 2019 FBS football season. Sponsored by Kellogg's Frosted Flakes breakfast cereal, the game was officially known as the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl, after its mascot, Tony the Tiger.


2019 Sun Bowl, Teams
The game was played between the Arizona State Sun Devils from the Pac-12 Conference and the Florida State Seminoles from Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). This was the fifth overall meeting and second postseason meeting between the programs; Florida State entered the game leading the all-time series, 3–1. Arizona State's lone victory in the series came in their home stadium in the inaugural Fiesta Bowl. The teams' most recent prior meeting was in 1984.


2019 Sun Bowl, Teams, Arizona State Sun Devils
Arizona State entered the game with a 7–5 record (4–5 in conference). They finished tied for third place in the South Division of the Pac-12. The Sun Devils were 3–1 against ranked opponents, defeating Michigan State, California, and Oregon while losing to Utah. They started their season 5–1, then lost four in a row before finishing the regular season with two wins. This was Arizona State's seventh Sun Bowl; the Sun Devils are 3–2–1 in prior appearances.


2019 Sun Bowl, Teams, Florida State Seminoles
Florida State entered the game with a 6–6 record (4–4 in conference). They finished in a three-way tie for third place in the ACC's Atlantic Division. The Seminoles lost to all three ranked teams they faced; Virginia, Clemson, and Florida. This was Florida State's third Sun Bowl; in their previous two appearances, their 1954 team lost the 1955 Sun Bowl to Texas Western (now UTEP), 37–14, and their 1966 team lost that season's Sun Bowl to Wyoming, 28–20.


2019 Suncorp Super Netball season
The 2019 Suncorp Super Netball season was the third season of the premier netball league in Australia. The season began on 27 April and concluded on 15 September 2019, however it was suspended for most of the month of July due to the Netball World Cup, which was played in Liverpool.


2019 Suncorp Super Netball season
The New South Wales Swifts won the premiership, defeating two-time defending premiers Sunshine Coast Lightning by 17 goals in the Grand Final at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.


2019 Suncorp Super Netball season, Overview, Format
The season is played over fourteen rounds, allowing every team to play each other twice, once at home and once away. The top four teams on the ladder at the conclusion of the regular season qualify for the finals series. In the first week of the finals series, the 1st ranked team hosts the 2nd ranked team in the major semi-final (with the winner of that match to qualify for the Grand Final) and the 3rd ranked team hosts the 4th ranked team in the minor semi-final (with the loser of that match eliminated). The loser of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the minor semi-final in the preliminary final. The winner of the major semi-final then hosts the winner of the preliminary final in the Grand Final.


2019 Suncorp Super Netball season, Player transfers
At the start of Super Netball in 2017, all players were contracted for a maximum of two years in line with the initial collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the players' association. Clubs were free to re-sign existing players in the last few weeks of the 2018 season, before the transfer window opened for unimpeded acquisitions at the end of the season. Clubs were given until 25 September 2018 to finalise their rosters for the 2019 season.


2019 Suncorp Super Netball season, Player transfers, Arrivals
The following table is a list of players who moved clubs/leagues into Super Netball, or were elevated into a permanent position in the senior team, during the off-season. It does not include players who were re-signed by their original Super Netball clubs.


2019 Suncorp Super Netball season, Player transfers, Departures
The following table is a list of players who left Super Netball clubs at the end of the previous season and joined a foreign club. It does not include players who retired from Super Netball at the end of the previous season.


2019 Suncorp Super Netball season, Pre-season tournament
The league introduced a pre-season tournament for the first time, known as the #TeamGirls Cup. The tournament took place between 8 and 10 March at the newly constructed Queensland State Netball Centre.


2019 Suncorp Super Netball season, Pre-season tournament
The eight Super Netball teams were split into two groups of four and played each of their group opponents once, before playing an inter-group match to determine places from first to eighth. All matches were live-streamed on the Netball Live App and Telstra TV, with the final match between the two top teams broadcast on the Nine Network. The tournament was won by the Collingwood Magpies, who defeated local rivals the Melbourne Vixens by six goals in the final.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake
The 2019 Sunda Strait earthquake occurred on the night of 2 August 2019, when a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rattled Sunda Strait at a moderate depth of 52.8 kilometres. The epicentre was located 214 km from Bandar Lampung, the capital of Lampung and 147 km west of Sumur, Pandeglang Regency. The earthquake struck with a maximum intensity of V (Moderate). The earthquake prompted a tsunami warning in the area, with authorities urging coastal residents to immediately evacuate to higher grounds.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake
The earthquake was the largest earthquake to have hit Jakarta and West Java since 2009, when a magnitude 7.0 struck Java killing 79 people. In the aftermath, the earthquake damaged a total of 505 structures across Banten and West Java. The earthquake caused 8 deaths, 8 injuries and displaced a total of 33 people. All of the deaths were indirectly caused by the earthquake.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake struck at 19:03 local time (12:03 UTC) at a moderate depth of 52.8 km (Indonesian BMKG stated that the earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km). The epicentre was located 147 km off the coast of Sumur, an area which had been previously destroyed by another tsunami in December 2018. Indonesian geological agency BMKG recorded the magnitude of the earthquake as 7.4 while the USGS recorded it as a magnitude 6.9 earthquake. BMKG subsequently revised the magnitude to 6.9 and its hypocentre to 48 km.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake, Earthquake
The earthquake struck with an oblique-slip motion. According to experts from the Indonesian BMKG, the earthquake wasn't caused by Sunda megathrust, but rather from a nearby fault, indicated by its north-south motion of the rupture. It was later confirmed that the earthquake was an intraplate earthquake.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake, Earthquake, Intensity
Moderate shaking were widely reported across Lampung, Banten and West Java. In Jakarta, office workers and apartment residents were evacuated from high rise buildings, citing "strong shaking". The operation of Jakarta MRT was terminated due to the earthquake. The earthquake could be felt as far away as Mataram, which was located in Lombok Island. In Yogyakarta, residents reported "swaying motion" from the earthquake. The recorded maximum Mercalli-intensity of the earthquake was VI (strong). The maximum perceived intensity, however, was V (moderate).


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake, Earthquake, Tsunami
A tsunami warning was issued for Lampung and Banten, with an expected maximum height of 3 m. Residents in coastal areas, especially those in Southern Lampung and Pandeglang Regency, were urged by authorities to evacuate to higher grounds. In Lampung, at least 1,050 people evacuated to the governor's office. Initially, there were unconfirmed reports that water levels had receded in several areas in Banten. These reports were considered as hoaxes as observation of tide gauges showed that there were no observed changes in water levels around Banten and Lampung. Nearly one and a half-hour after the warning was issued, it was cancelled by Indonesian BMKG.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake, Casualties
On 3 August, the Indonesian Government confirmed that 2 people had died during the evacuation, one of whom reportedly died due to heart attack. On 4 August, the death toll later rose to 5 and then stood at 6, specifically 1 in Pandeglang Regency, 3 in Lebak Regency and 2 in Sukabumi Regency. All of the deaths were indirectly caused by the earthquake and none were caused by fallen debris. Additionally, 3 injuries were reported and 33 people were displaced by the earthquake. Finally, on 5 August, a number of eight casualties was confirmed.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake, Damage
Since most of the buildings located in the region are vulnerable and don't meet with the current criteria for an earthquake-resistant building, significant damages were widely reported across the region. Most of the buildings in the region are considered as unreinforced masonry building. Preliminary reports showed that dozens of structures across Banten and West Java had been either damaged or destroyed by the earthquake. On 3 August, hours after the quake, reports indicated that 21 houses and 1 mosque had been damaged. The number later rose to 200.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake, Damage
Cracks were found in several homes in Bandung, the capital of West Java. A total of 7 homes were damaged in Bogor. Pandeglang Regional Disaster Management Board stated that 42 homes were damaged in Pandeglang, particularly in Mandalawangi. A total of 505 structures, including schools, mosques and public institution, were damaged in the quake. Traditional Baduy settlements with vernacular buildings reported little to no damage  A campus in Jakarta was damaged.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake, Damage
The Indonesian Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing, however, stated that no infrastructures had been damaged in the quake.


2019 Sunda Strait earthquake, Response
The Indonesian Ministry of Health stated that the Central Government's medical department will not help with the handling of the healthcare for the survivors, stating that the regional government is 'adequate enough' to handle. The Ministry of Social Affairs stated that it had dispatched personnel of Tagana (Taruna Siaga Bencana) to the affected areas. The ministry stated that those who perished in the quake would be compensated with Rp 15 million each.


2019 Sundance Film Festival
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 24 to February 3, 2019. The first lineup of competition films was announced on November 28, 2018.


2019 Sundance Film Festival, Films, Next
The following 10 films were selected for a world premiere in Next program to highlight the American cinema.


2019 Sundance Film Festival, Awards
The winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Award was Clemency (2019), directed by Chinonye Chukwu.


2019 Sundance Film Festival, Awards
The winner of the U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Award was One Child Nation (2019), directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang.


2019 Sundance Film Festival, Awards
The winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic was The Souvenir (2019), directed by Joanna Hogg.


2019 Sundance Film Festival, Awards
The winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary was Honeyland (2019), directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov.


2019 Sundance Film Festival, Awards
The winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award was Monos (2019) directed by Alejandro Landes.


2019 Sundance Film Festival, Juries
Jury members, for each program of the festival, including the Alfred P. Sloan Jury were announced on January 17, 2019.


2019 Sunderland City Council election
The 2019 Sunderland City Council election took place on 2 May 2019 to elect members of Sunderland City Council in England. The election took place on the same day as other local elections.


2019 Sunderland City Council election, Background
There had been no by-elections to the Council in the period since the 2018 local elections, however two Liberal Democrat councillors who had won by-elections in 2017 and 2018 were seeking re-election, and a Liberal Democrat councillor had stood down ahead of the elections, meaning that there was a two-up election in the Sandhill Ward.


2019 Sunderland City Council election, Background
Sitting St Chad's councillor and former mayor Stuart Porthouse was unable to stand for re-election, having been suspended from the Labour Party ahead of the election, after sharing a post online about anti-Semitism. In Washington, a former Labour councillor had resigned having been expelled from the Labour Party after pleading guilty to attempting to sexually communicate with a child.


2019 Sunderland City Council election, Background
The Labour Party, Conservatives and UKIP all fielded 25 candidates in the election. The Liberal Democrats fielded 19 candidates, and the Greens 24. In addition, there were 4 Independent candidates, 3 Populist Party candidates, and one each from For Britain and the Democrats and Veterans.


2019 Sunderland City Council election, Election results
The election saw Labour defend 12 seats and lose 10. The Conservatives held the seat they were defending in St Michael's, and gained from Labour in Fulwell, St Peter's, St Chad's and Barnes. The Liberal Democrats defended their seat in Pallion and one seat in Sandhill,they gained a second seat in Sandhill and gained seats in Millfield and Doxford. UKIP won their first ever seats on Sunderland City Council, taking the Ryhope, St Anne's and Redhill wards from Labour. In a close result, the Greens also gained their first seat, taking Washington South from Labour by 3 votes.


2019 Sunderland City Council election, Election results
Following the elections, Graeme Miller, the Labour leader of the Council, blamed his Party's fortunes on their Brexit stance, warning "We need to think carefully about what Brexit has done here, people have voted against the Labour Party on that."


2019 Sunderland City Council election, Election results
The election result was the worst for the Labour Party in Sunderland since the Council was set up in 1973, although they had previously lost 9 councillors in the 1982 local elections. It was the Conservatives' best result since 2011, and the best result for the Liberal Democrats since 1982 (when they stood as the SDP/Liberal Alliance).


2019 Sunderland City Council election, Council composition
In the last council, the composition of the council was:


2019 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Pallion Ward
The Liberal Democrat candidate had won this seat in a by-election in February 2018 following the death of the incumbent Labour councillor. The 2019 result, whilst a hold for the Liberal Democrats, is technically a gain from Labour based on the last time the seat was contested at a local election in 2015.


2019 Sunderland City Council election, Ward by ward results, Sandhill Ward
There was a double vacancy in Sandhill Ward at the 2019 elections. Stephen O'Brien had won the first seat in a by-election in January 2017. The 2019 result, whilst a hold for the Liberal Democrats, was technically a gain from Labour based on the last time the seat was contested at a local election in 2015. The second seat was up for election as the Liberal Democrat candidate who won in 2018 stood down ahead of the 2019 elections. Margaret Crosby defended the seat for the Liberal Democrats.


2019 Sunshine Ladies Tour
The 2019 Sunshine Ladies Tour was the 6th season of the Sunshine Ladies Tour, a series of professional golf tournaments for women based in  South Africa.


2019 Sunshine Ladies Tour, Schedule
The season consisted of 12 events, 11 in South Africa and one in Eswatini, played as a block between January and May, plus two Vodacom Origins of Golf Series events in October.


2019 Sunshine Ladies Tour, Order of Merit
This shows the leaders in the final Order of Merit.


2019 Super Formula Championship
The 2019 Japanese Super Formula Championship was the 33rd season of premier Japanese open-wheel motor racing, and the seventh under the moniker of Super Formula. The season began on 21 April at Suzuka Circuit and ended on 27 October at the same location.


2019 Super Formula Championship
2019 marked the first season of the Dallara SF19 chassis package, while continuing the engine configuration of the preceding chassis.


2019 Super Formula Championship
Nick Cassidy clinched his first Driver's Championship title, after finishing ahead of reigning champion Naoki Yamamoto at the season finale at Suzuka. Docomo Team Dandelion Racing won their first Teams' Championship title since 2012, with Naoki Yamamoto and Nirei Fukuzumi driving for them.


2019 Super Formula Championship, Race calendar and results
The calendar with seven rounds was announced in August 2018.


2019 Super GT Series
The 2019 Super GT Series was a motor racing championship based in Japan for grand touring cars. The series is sanctioned by the Japan Automobile Federation (JAF) and run by the GT Association (GTA). It was the twenty-seventh season of the Japan Automobile Federation Super GT Championship which includes the All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship (JGTC) era and the fifteenth season the series has competed under the Super GT name. It was the thirty-seventh overall season of a national JAF sportscar championship dating back to the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship. The season began on April 14 and ended on November 24, after 8 championship races & 2 non-championship races.


2019 Super GT Series
The 2019 championship saw the series form a partnership with the German-based Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, allowing entries to compete in both championships.


2019 Super GT Series, Championship Standings, Drivers' championships, GT500
‡ – The race at Okayama was red flagged after completing 30 laps. Due to less than 75% of the scheduled distance being completed, half points were awarded to the classified finishers.


2019 Super GT Series, Championship Standings, Drivers' championships, GT300
‡ – The race at Okayama was red flagged after completing 30 laps. Due to less than 75% of the scheduled distance being completed, half points were awarded to the classified finishers.


2019 Super League Grand Final
The 2019 Super League Grand Final was the 22nd official Grand Final and championship-deciding game of Super League XXIV. It was held at Old Trafford in Manchester on 12 October 2019. The final was contested by St. Helens and Salford Red Devils (who were appearing in their first ever grand final).


2019 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, St Helens
St Helens finished 1st in the regular season, to earn a bye to the semi-finals and a home tie against 2nd place Wigan Warriors. Saints dominated the first half by scoring four tries to Wigan's one and led 26–6 at half-time with tries from Theo Fages, Kevin Naiqama, Luke Thompson, and Jonny Lomax.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, St Helens
Wigan knew they had a job to do in the 2nd half, but this was not to be, as Saints Zeb Taia's score and a Mark Percival double extended the lead to send Saints to their first grand final since 2014.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, St Helens
This was also Justin Holbrook's final game for Saints at the Totally Wicked Stadium, without losing a single home game all season. He will leave at the end of the season, as he prepares to take on the vacant coaching role at Gold Coast Titans and will be replaced by Kristian Woolf for the 2020 Season.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, Salford Red Devils
Salford finished 3rd in the regular season, to earn an away tie against 2nd place Wigan Warriors in the qualifying finals, only to lose 18–12.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, Salford Red Devils
This meant that Salford would get another chance against Castleford in the Elimination-final, this time there was no mistakes, as they went on to win the match 22–0, thus setting up another tie against Wigan in the preliminary final.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, Salford Red Devils
Salford opened the scoring on 2 minutes, as Lee Mossop had the ball stolen, and Krisnan Inu slotted over a penalty goal from 40m out. Wigan were again penalised in the 7th minute, for offside and Inu slotted over another penalty to make it 4–0. The video referee was called into action in the 13th minute, as Gil Dudson went over for the visitors, but referee Ben Thaler couldn't decide whether it was a double movement or not. The try was awarded and Inu added the extras to give Salford a 10–0 lead after 15 minutes.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, Salford Red Devils
The visitors extended their lead further in the 45th minute, Joey Lussick crashing over from close range, the try awarded after much deliberation from the video referee. Inu adding another conversion to give Salford an 18–0 lead.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, Salford Red Devils
Inu added a fifth penalty goal of the evening in the 65th minute, before the Warriors finally got their first score of the game in the 72nd minute, Oliver Gildart made the initial break, before being captured out by good vision from Sean O’Loughlin, saw the skipper put a kick through for Bevan French, to win the foot race and ease over. Zak Hardaker hit the uprights with the conversion attempt and it was 28–4 to the visitors.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Background, Route to the Final, Salford Red Devils
Salford won, and earned them a first ever appearance at the grand final.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Match details
St Helens opened the scoring through Morgan Knowles, receiving a short ball from Alex Walmsley to crash over to the left of the posts. Coote converted to give Saints a 6–0 lead. The runaway league leaders continued their early dominance, crossing the line again through Zeb Taia following a brilliantly crafted short side scrum play. Coote converted once more to extend the lead to 12–0.


2019 Super League Grand Final, Match details
The resilient Salford side hit back just after the half hour mark, Jake Bibby finishing off a clever blind side switch in the corner, converted by Krisnan Inu to reduce the score to 12–6 at Half Time. Mark Percival then crossed early in the 2nd half, chasing his own delicately weighted kick to score in front of the raucous Stretford End. Coote converted to restore Saints lead to 12 points at 18–6. Two more Coote penalties extended the scoreline to 22–6 in favour of the Saints, before Tommy Makinson kicked a 40m drop goal to seal a 23–6 win and clinch St Helens their 7th Super League Title.


2019 Super League of Malawi
The 2019 Super League of Malawi (known as the TNM Super League for sponsorship reasons) was the 34th season of the Super League of Malawi, the top professional league for association football clubs in Malawi, since its establishment in 1986. It started on 13 April 2019 and ended in 22 December 2019.


2019 Super League of Malawi
Nyasa Big Bullets are the defending champions of the 2018 season.


2019 Super League of Malawi, Clubs
Sixteen teams competed in the league – the top thirteen teams from the previous season and the three promoted teams from the regional leagues: Ntopwa, Mlatho Mponela and Chitipa United.


2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament
The 2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament was a List A cricket tournament that was played in Sri Lanka between 4 and 11 April 2019. Four teams took part in the competition: Colombo, Dambulla, Galle and Kandy, with Galle being the defending champions.


2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament
Initially, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said that players would only be considered for the 2019 Cricket World Cup if they played in this tournament. Lasith Malinga was originally expected to play in the tournament and miss out on some part of the 2019 Indian Premier League (IPL). The SLC then changed its stance, granting permission for Malinga to miss the tournament and play in the IPL. However, days before the start of the tournament, Malinga was listed as playing in a press release issued by Sri Lanka Cricket. Malinga played for Galle in the opening fixture of the tournament, the day after appearing for the Mumbai Indians in the IPL. In the match against Kandy, he took seven wickets for 49 runs, his best figures in List A cricket.


2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament
Following the conclusion of the round-robin matches, Galle and Colombo had progressed to the tournament final. Dambulla won the third place play-off match, after they beat Kandy by 94 runs. The final finished as a no result, after rain stopped play during the innings break, therefore Colombo and Galle shared the title. Angelo Mathews was named the best batsman of the tournament, Lasith Malinga the best bowler and Dhananjaya de Silva was named the player of the tournament.


2019 Super Provincial One Day Tournament, Squads
The following teams and squads were named to compete in the tournament:


2019 Super Rugby Final
The 2019 Super Rugby Final was played between the Crusaders of New Zealand and the Jaguares of Argentina. It was the 24th final in the Super Rugby competition's history. The Crusaders had qualified in first place on the regular season standings, while the Jaguares had qualified in second place. Both teams hosted quarter-final and semi-final matches.


2019 Super Rugby Final
The final was won by the Crusaders who beat the Jaguares by sixteen points. The Crusaders stretched their record number of Super Rugby wins to ten and completed what is called a three-peat by winning the tournament three times consecutively in what was the competition's lowest scoring final.


2019 Super Rugby Final, Road to the final
The 2019 season was a 15-team competition, consisting of three geographical conferences. Each conference leader at the end of the regular season, the  Crusaders from New Zealand,  Jaguares from Argentina and  Brumbies from Australia gained home berths in the quarterfinals, as did the top-ranked wildcard team, the  Hurricanes from New Zealand's conference. Their four wildcard opponents in the quarterfinals were the next best teams as ranked at the end of the regular season.


2019 Super Rugby Final, Road to the final
In the quarter-finals the Crusaders beat fellow New Zealand team the Highlanders while the Jaguares beat the Chiefs. For the semi-finals it was the Crusaders defeating the Hurricanes in Christchurch and the Jaguares defeating the Brumbies in Buenos Aires. Because of being the higher placed team in the regular season log standings, the final was held in Christchurch.


2019 Super Rugby Final, Final, Details
Assistant Referees: Mike Fraser (New Zealand) Paul Williams (New Zealand)Television match official: Ben Skeen (New Zealand)


2019 Super Rugby season
The 2019 Super Rugby season was the 24th season of Super Rugby, an annual rugby union competition organised by SANZAAR between teams from Argentina, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and South Africa. The 2019 season was the second season using the reduced 15-team format consisting of three geographical conferences since being reduced from an 18-team competition in 2017.


2019 Super Rugby season
This was the final season that used the traditional format of international teams playing each other.


2019 Super Rugby season, Competition format
The 15 participating teams were divided into three geographical conferences: the Australian Conference (consisting of four Australian teams and the Japanese Sunwolves), the New Zealand Conference (consisting of five New Zealand teams), and the South African Conference (consisting of four South African teams and the  Jaguares from Argentina).


2019 Super Rugby season, Competition format
In the group stages, there were 18 rounds of matches, with each team playing 16 matches and having two rounds of byes, resulting in a total of 120 matches. Teams played eight inter-conference matches and eight cross-conference matches; they played all the other teams in their conference twice — once at home and once away — and play once against four of the teams in the other two conferences.


2019 Super Rugby season, Competition format
The top team in each of the three conferences qualified for the quarterfinals, as do the next five teams with the best records across the three conferences, known as wildcards. The conference winners and best wildcard team hosted the quarterfinals. The quarterfinal winners progressed to the semifinal, and the winners of the semifinals progressed to the final.


2019 Super Rugby season, Standings
The final standings for the 2019 Super Rugby season are:


2019 Super Rugby season, Standings, Round-by-round
The table below shows each team's progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets:


2019 Super Rugby season, Matches
The fixtures for the 2019 Super Rugby competition were released on 12 June 2018. The following matches were played during the regular season:


2019 Super Rugby season, Players, Top scorers
The top ten try and point scorers during the 2019 Super Rugby season are:


2019 Super Rugby season, Referees
The following refereeing panel was appointed by SANZAAR for the 2019 Super Rugby season:


2019 Super Taikyu Series
The 2019 Super Taikyu Series is the 28th season of the Super Taikyu Series. The season will start on 23 March at Suzuka Circuit and end on 10 November at Okayama International Circuit.


2019 Super W season
The 2019 Super W season was the second year of the women's Super W rugby union competition held in Australia. A change to the finals format was made in 2019 with an additional playoff match added for the teams which finished second and third in regular season. Queensland, as winner of that match over the  Brumbies, travelled to Sydney to play in the competition decider against the  NSW Waratahs, who were hosts of the final due to finishing top of the ladder in the regular season. The 2019 Super W title was won by NSW Waratahs, defeating Queensland by 8–5 in the final.


2019 Super W season, Teams
Five women's teams again played in the Super W competition. Western Australia's team was rebranded as the RugbyWA Women for 2019, having been named the Western Force Women in 2018.


2019 Super W season, Finals
Teams finishing second and third after the round-robin stage met in a playoff to determine which side would progress to the grand final against the first-placed team from the regular season. The grand final winner became the Super W champion.


2019 Super2 Series
The 2019 Super2 Series was an Australian motor racing competition for Supercars, a support series to the 2019 Supercars Championship. It was the twentieth running of the Supercars Development Series, the second tier of competition in Supercars racing.


2019 Super2 Series
Bryce Fullwood won the championship with one round to spare in the MW Motorsport prepared Nissan Altima L33.


2019 Super2 Series, Entries
The following teams and drivers competed in the 2019 championship:


2019 Super2 Series, Calendar
The calendar for the 2019 championship will consist of seven rounds:


2019 Super3 Series
The 2019 Super3 Series (known for commercial reasons as the Kumho Tyre Super3 Series) was the twelfth season of the Super3 Series, since its inception in 2008. Following an agreement between V8 Touring Cars and Supercars, the series undertook a name change from the "V8 Touring Car National Series" to "Super3", although the series will continue to be run by category managers Rob and Liam Curkpatrick.


2019 Super3 Series
The defending champion for the 2019 season is Tyler Everingham, whilst Jim Pollicina and Andy Cantrell are the respective Kumho and Heritage defending champions.


2019 Super3 Series, Teams and drivers
The following teams and drivers are currently under contract to compete in the 2019 championship:


2019 Super3 Series, Calendar
The calendar for the 2019 championship will consist of five rounds, including four that will be run in support of Supercars events:


2019 SuperUtes Series
The 2019 SuperUtes Series (known for commercial reasons as the 2019 ECB SuperUtes Series) will be the second running of the series. The season will start at the Adelaide Street Circuit on March 1 and will conclude at Newcastle Street Circuit on November 24.


2019 Superbike World Championship
The 2019 Superbike World Championship (known as 2019 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the 32nd season of the Superbike World Championship.


2019 Superbike World Championship, Competition format
A new race format was introduced for the 2019 season. As in 2018, two normal length races (Race 1 and Race 2) were held – one each on Saturday and Sunday (Friday and Saturday in Qatar). A third race, a ten lap sprint named the Superpole Race, was held on the final morning of the weekend prior to Race 2. The starting grids for Race 1 and the Superpole Race were determined by a single 25-minute Superpole Qualifying session. The grid for Race 2 featured the top nine riders in the Superpole Race in the order in which they finished followed by the remaining riders sorted by their Superpole Qualifying times.


2019 Superbike World Championship, Race calendar and results
A provisional 13-event calendar (of which one race was unconfirmed) was announced on 13 November 2018, with one round change from 2018 as the Czech round at Brno was replaced by a round at Jerez, to be held in June. As well as this, the round at Donington Park was moved from May to July, with the Misano round moving forward into June to accommodate this. On 19 December 2018, the thirteenth round was confirmed at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, having initially been dropped for 2019.


2019 Superbike World Championship, Entry list
An 18-rider provisional permanent entry list was released by Dorna Sports on 11 January 2019.